Fire – As the sixth episode of Echoes begins, Gina (Michelle Monaghan) wakes up in the hospital and begins asking about her baby. The nurse says they thought she was the girl who went missing so they called her family. They’re coming. Although she is told to rest until they get here, Gina decides to escape. Once she leaves the hospital, she calls Leni to tell her Towers and Payne are after her so she is on the move. Gina asks her to come and get her as Georgia (Celia Weston) listens from nearby. When Leni arrives, she begins looking around and finds Georgia. Gina manages to plant the bloody knife in Leni’s vehicle. In an interview room, Sheriff Louise Floss (Karen Robinson) asks Leni why Gina would frame her. Leni says she is unstable. Floss says she is going to need a stronger motive than she is just prone to mood swings.

Leni asks if she thinks it is odd that an anonymous caller told them about the incriminating evidence in her car. The Sheriff admits most crimes around here get solved because someone turns them in whether it is a business partner or sister. If it is Gina, she has been a big help. Leni also points out that she likely has more information than she is sharing. Moments later, Floss approaches Gina to tell her she is under arrest. This isn’t about Dylan though. Instead, it is about Robert Craghorne who died in a fire in an abandoned church 25 years ago. In another interview room, Floss asks Gina why Leni would cook up a whopper like that. She wonders if it has something to do with Leni having an affair with Dylan, but Gina quickly denies that. Gina says she is being charged with the murder of someone she didn’t even and who died in a fire decades ago.

The Sheriff knows they were questioned on the night of the fire before Dylan skipped town. She says she didn’t have enough to file charges or even pursue him, but it was suspicious. Floss wants to know how all of these things tie together. She says Dylan is in the center of these things with Gina and her sister. Gina insists she didn’t start the fire. She says she was at a Halloween party as a flashback begins. Gina and Dylan make out and get ready to have sex. When Gina hears something nearby, Dylan agrees to check up and check. Dylan (Clayton Royal Johnson) notices that there is a fire so he begins warning others. He tells Gina to get out of the church while he takes care of the guy upstairs. Once Gina makes it outside, Leni convinces her to run away with her. They stop before Leni says they should switch so the cops can’t put her with Dylan.

She promises to protect her and warns that whoever was in the church is going to get into so much trouble. In the present Floss believes Gina can see why she’d be suspicious of her story that Leni started the fire. The only person who can back that up is dead. Gina asks if she has anyone who can support her theory. The Sheriff reveals Leni claimed she never went into the church. She questioned both of them that night. They said they were at the party the whole time and none of the kids could say otherwise. Gina suggests that works nicely for Leni. Floss believes the two of them have been doing this for a long time. They get into trouble before using their twinship to get out of it by confusing people. Gina confesses they might’ve done that as kids, but they haven’t done it in a long time. Gina encourages her to ask Leni how she got the check for $60,000 that came directly from her bank account.

Floss returns to Leni to say she called the bank to talk about the check. The man at the bank said there was some confusion about a missing ID before it was found and Dylan was involved. She wants to know how Leni got the check if Gina picked it up. Leni claims Gina gave her the check at the party because she knew they were struggling with the farm. The tension people witnessed at the party had to do with the money. Leni says she thinks Gina is resentful and jealous of the wonderful life she has with Jack. Floss asks why she’d cheat with Dylan if that were the case, but Leni says she didn’t have an affair and was only trying to help him get back on his feet. She is asked if that involved stealing ketamine from Jack’s office to sell on the street.

Once Leni denies doing that, the Sheriff leaves again. Victor (Michael O’Neill) is allowed to see Leni who tells him that she is playing both of them. He tells her Floss thinks Gina set the fire back in the day and killed that man. Victor knows she is in there for Dylan’s murders and that is not the girls he raised. After Leni promises she’ll fix it, Victor admits he is going to love her no matter what. Sheriff Floss watches surveillance video of both interview rooms. Deputy Paula Martinez (Rosanny Zayas) asks her about letting Victor in there. Floss admits she did because Victor runs that place and should know everything about the ketamine. Paula says the prints came back from the cabin. The results confirm they have the prints and DNA of both sisters there. They also ran tests for the dishes in the cabinets and everything that has been around for a while. Those results pointed to Dylan and Gina only.

That surprises Floss who asks if she ever finished sifting through that CCTV footage. When Paula says no, she is told to do that now. Sheriff Floss returns to Leni to ask if they shared Dylan since people say they share everything. When confronted about the fingerprints in the cabin, Leni says that would be a good question for Gina. Floss reveals Gina claimed she didn’t know that they were sleeping together, but she thinks she did and it was the last straw. It was the one thing she just couldn’t share with Leni. Floss accuses them of being violent sisters with a proven history of violent outbursts. After Leni asks for her attorney, Paula bursts in to tell the Sheriff she needs her for a minute. Paula shows her something on a computer before the Sheriff tells her good work. Floss returns to Gina to tell her why she is a people person. She thinks they’ve been outsiders for as long as they’ve been alive.

When they’re dealing with matters of the heart, it always seems to point to Gina. Victor said that is how their mother was able to tell them apart. The Sheriff shows her CCTV footage and says the hospital admits a Jane Doe suffering a miscarriage. They thought it was Leni when it was really Gina. Floss believes the baby was Dylan’s since he was her one great love. He is where the pattern doesn’t hold and the part Floss has to pay attention to. The timeline doesn’t fit because Gina only came to town a few days ago. Gina is asked what Dylan would want her to do at this moment to honor him. She admits Dylan wanted her to go and never come back so she begins telling Floss about switching with her sister every year since Mattie was born. Sheriff Floss refuses to believe it. Gina mimics her sister to get the Sheriff to believe her.

She says Gina will get her chasing her tail since she has done it before. Gina tells her that she can never be truly sure who was on the video or who escaped into the woods with the horses. Nobody knows them except them. Sheriff Floss warns her that she has been committing a lot of crimes, including bank fraud, polygamy, and identity theft. Gina asks who she is saying when she says “you” because she doesn’t even know anymore. Moments later, Sheriff Floss tells Leni that she is free to go because she can’t be positive which one did it. Leni is told she’ll need to turn over her passport and remain in town until further notice. The sheriff thinks one of them made a mistake along the way and she is going to find it. Then, she tells Victor and the others that she is releasing both.

Gina tells Charlie that the burden has been lifted now that she told the truth before they begin talking about his notes. She asks why he went along with it for all these years. Charlie says it took time to be sure and he thought it was what she needed. He set aside his feelings to find out how to better love them. Once she says it doesn’t upset her that he loved Leni too, he reminds her that he is someone who always cares for her. He wants her to become her own, fully realized person. He believes she is closed now than ever before. When Leni returns home, Jack asks her what she is doing here because she can’t really think it is okay.

He tells her that Floss is getting a search warrant because she is interested in the dress she was wearing on the night of Dylan’s murder. He didn’t think the Leni he knew would’ve done that, but he isn’t sure. She claims she did it for Gina and didn’t expect it to go on for that long. Jack can’t believe she would do that and leave her daughter alone for a year at a time. He accuses her of betraying her everything and destroying their lives without a single thought about the consequences. Jack reminds her that his entire family’s history is tied to Mount Echo. He says she has ruined their reputation and their business forever. Mattie comes down and learns that they’re fighting as Jack tries to get her to go back to bed. Once she goes up to bed, Jack tells Leni that was the last memory she will have of her. When Leni says he can’t keep her away from Mattie, he tells her to watch him.

He makes her leave. Gina enters Claudia’s house with groceries. Claudia tells her she can’t make this normal, but Gina insists she didn’t kill Dylan because she loved him. Claudia (Ali Stroker) doesn’t like the idea that they were going to leave everyone behind to start a new life together. Gina knows she has made mistakes, but she wants her to listen. This whole year has been her goodbye. She wants Claudia to know that she could have a life apart from them and everything that has happened. Claudia suspects it was Gina who encouraged her to pursue Beau and not Leni. She asks why she should believe her now since she has been lying for years. Claudia blames her for her condition, but Gina insists that isn’t true. Gina says it was Leni before a flashback replays the events. Gina admits they didn’t want people to know they had switched and she thought Leni was doing it to protect her.

Claudia complains that she kept that secret for years until she is about to go to prison. After Claudia curses her, Gina decides to leave. Paula meets with her at a café as Gina insists the person inside is what mattered and it was her. She insists she didn’t kill Dylan. Although she could tell her about all the little lies over the year, she isn’t sure it would help. It’d give people more reason to stare and she isn’t going to give them that. She again says she didn’t kill anyone. Paula doesn’t think she did, but she doesn’t know how to help her either. She isn’t sure anyone can help her. After Paula leaves, Gina gets a call from her father and rushes to meet him. She finds him down on the ground and tries to help him. He apologizes to her before saying he knows it was her. He should’ve got her help back then. Victor says she wasn’t supposed to be there and seeing her mother that way ruined her life.

He says it was what she wanted because she was in so much pain. He remembers there were apple blossoms everywhere. Victor dies as Gina begins sobbing before she hears a vehicle outside. Leni gets out of her truck and approaches the house as Gina comes out to confront her. Gina remembers swinging with her sister while their mother Maria asks them to come inside for dinner. Gina tells her sister that their father is dead. Leni runs inside to check on him before telling her sister there may still be time to call 911. Gina says there was no goodbye and it is already too late. He was just talking about something that he thought she understood but didn’t. They begin arguing over what they should do with Leni wanting to save themselves. Gina tells her to stop. She pulls a gun on her because she doesn’t want to be a part of anything she does. Gina fires into the ceiling and asks why she killed Dylan, but Leni denies it.

Once Gina tells her that Dylan told her it was her, Leni claims he attacked her. She insists it was self-defense because he was violent. Gina admits she loved him. She doesn’t think her sister could stand that she had happiness apart from her. Leni goes after her before the gun slide under the couch. During their struggle, they end up starting a fire in the house. Gina wants to get their dad and get out of there, but Leni thinks they should just go. She complains that people can’t understand that she loves her sister more than anything.

 

Echoes Review

The sixth episode of Echoes felt like it was rehashing everything we already knew. The only difference is that Sheriff Floss was learning about the fire during the Halloween party and other things. The acting might be okay, but it is hard to take those painful southern accents. Those not familiar with a real southern accent may not care much while others will agree that the accents here are bad.

There isn’t much out of the ordinary here since you can pretty much guess what was going to happen. One thing that irks me is how lifeless the town seems. Even when Leni and Gina are out in the city, it seems like they’re the only people in town. The town just feels empty and lifeless. Some things are unrealistic so it is a good idea to have low expectations when watching Echoes.

Echoes might be a good time killer, but it is hard to imagine it could be anything other than that. The episode scores a 5 out of 10. Recaps of Echoes can be found on Reel Mockery here. Learn how to support our independent entertainment website at this link.